"Teacher, the deal has been blocked, do we need to send Daniel an email back?"

"No, we didn't cancel the deal just to make this bad breath for him, and we don't have to give him any reply!"

"Okay!"

Xiao Hua was about to leave, but Stern suddenly stopped him: "Wait a while, do the owners of other teams have any reaction?" ”

"From what I know, a lot of them were waiting for an update on how things went, but they didn't say anything about it after you stepped in to block the deal."

"Okay, I got it!" Stern answered again, nodded and began to look for information.

"That's right!" Stern thought of something: "How's the new collective bargaining agreement contract going?" ”

"It's hard to unify, especially after this season, Daniel, Herb, and Michael Jordan, they all have a lot of opinions, they all feel that the contracts given to the players are too big, especially the contracts at the heart of the team! This is really bad for a small city team like them! ”

"In addition, LeBron's transfer to Yi Jianlian is also a problem for the owners of other small city teams, and they are afraid that such a thing will happen to them when the time comes."

"Humph!" Hearing this, Stern snorted coldly, took off his glasses, and threw them on the table, "Such rhetoric was originally used against the media, and these guys are now going to use it on me?" ”

"In the end, whether there is any money or not, they should know in their hearts that George Sean only spent money on the Hornets in the first place? It's less than 100 million, and now I give him 350 million, and we will sign a high broadcast agreement in a few years, and the market value of all the teams in the league will definitely increase a lot at that time, such a high-return investment, and I still cry poor, these capitalists! ”

"Besides, player transfer transactions are part of the NBA, is it possible that players want to leave, and they can be restricted?"

"And Michael Jordan, 10 years ago, he spoke out on behalf of the players' union and fought for the interests of the players, why, now that he is the owner of the team, and he thinks that the treaties he fought for were too harsh? It's hypocritical! ”

Stern rubbed his temples, there were words in his mouth, and complained about the guys Xiao Hua said, rubbing for about five minutes, Stern put his glasses back on, and at the same time complained about the team owner, when he took off his glasses and rested, he could temporarily not regard himself as the president of the league, but back to work, he knew very well that the owners of 30 teams were the foundation that could make the NBA work, and Stern could only try his best to meet their requirements, It is also knowing the minds of these bosses that he has done these things so far.

"You explain to these owners, especially the owners of these small cities that you yourself said, that canceling the Chris Paul trade to the Lakers represents our determination! We're going to come up with a plan as soon as possible to help the small-city teams keep the superstars they have developed, so that LeBron James, and ...... There are also transfers like Yi Jianlian, which no longer happen frequently. ”

Stern really doesn't want to talk about Yi Jianlian, even from his point of view, Yi Jianlian's transfer is Herb Cole's stupidity, he can't sell the team if he wants to, so he will immediately dismantle the team to save money, why do you want to make money and want to go crazy? Others don't know if Hebber Cole is making money or not, doesn't he know yet?

Judging from what Stern knows, there are only a few teams in the league that really lose money, and although the Bucks say that they don't make much money, they definitely don't lose money!

He just has too much appetite!

"Okay, how to do it, this matter will be left to you!"

Xiao Hua nodded and left, and Stern dialed another call: "Danps, you have to appease Chris Paul as soon as possible!" ”

He called Hornets general manager Danps, who was depressed at this time: "Mr. President, maybe you have to tell me a reason first, why you want to cancel this deal, I don't have any violations, do I?" ”

"But you didn't give the Hornets any leverage either, do you think your new owner will like the chips you traded for the league's No. 1 point guard?"

"......" Danps was silent, it is true that the Lakers made the most money in this deal, in addition to Chris Paul, they also got a trade exception, which is enough for this team to eat any more salary cap player.

Kobe Bryant plus Paul plus a player who is at least an All-Star level or higher, and you know what that means on your toes.

"The league can't keep hosting the Hornets, we need a new owner to join, and you have to come up with something to make the Hornets at least look less bad, even if Chris Paul has to go, then he has to get the chips corresponding to him, not someone else, Chris Paul's contract still has a long time to go and we have enough time to find a team with a higher stakes!" Let this team see that even if it lacks a core now, the future is still bright, so stop complaining, Danps, and get to work! ”

“…… I know! "Dampus lost his temper.

"Then let's do it first, hang up."

"Whew!"

Stern put down the phone, finally relieved that the matter was over, at least until he did.

The reason why he blocked this deal is nothing more than these two reasons: the first is because the collective bargaining agreement is imminent, he must hand over the vote, to the league owners, especially the league owners of small city teams, to see the league headquarters' determination to "rebalance the league", there are too many big-name transfers this season, and except for Anthony, who was forced to trade to Orlando by the team, the others are all going to big cities, if Chris Paul also goes from New Orleans to the big city of Los Angeles to join forces with Kobe, I'm afraid that this summer's negotiations will be very troublesome, as Xiao Hua's teacher, and more importantly, as the president of the alliance, he must pave the way for his successor and let him end things successfully; The second is that for the sake of the Hornets' investment attraction, no owner wants to see his own family send a core to the house, and also give a trade exception to fulfill the stupid hat general manager of other teams. Any boss who is interested in the NBA, even if he has the heart to join the Hornets, will immediately give up such an idea after seeing such a deal being born, right?

In short, the trade between Chris Paul and Kobe Bryant Stern has to be stopped both publicly and privately, which can be said to be for the long-term development of the league, and it can also be said that it is for the Hornets to have the next successor as soon as possible.

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At the same time, the league was in complete chaos, first with Chris Paul publicly blasting the league for interfering with his choice, and then preparing to unite Billy Hunt, the director of the players' union, for trying to defend his rights through legal channels.

Players from various NBA teams also fought for Chris Paul at this time, and Danny Granger even changed his Twitter ID to "Stern is a biao" to openly mock Stern.

The relationship between the league and the players suddenly became strained.